Packaging device for metal sheets



Nov. 6, 1928 4 1 J. H. QNEIL v PAcKAengcT DEVICE FOR METAL ,SHEETS YFiled Aug. 9, 1926 2 Sheets-sheet 1 Nov. 6, 1928; 1,690,873

7 ,1 H. ONEIL Y PACKAGING DEVICE FOR ME TAL SHEETS Filed Aug. 9, 1926 2Shets-Sheet 2 Patented Nova '6, 1928 UNITED STATES PATENT "OFFICE.

JAMES H. O'NEIL, OI SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 CONTINENTAL CAN COM-rm, me, or saw wax, n. Y.,

A CORPORATION or NEW YORK.

racneme DEVICE FOR METAL sn'nn'rs.

Application filed August a, 1926. Serial No. 128,147.

'The invention relates to new and useful improvements in packagingdevices for metal sheets andm'ore particularly to packaglng devices forpacking metal sheets for shipment.

An object of the invention is to provide. packaging devices. whichinclude a supporting means havin legs permanently attached thereto andhaving detachable angle members which together form an adjustablesuporting base on which the metal sheets may stacked, and to which basethe stacked sheets are bound by baling means for shipment.

A-further object ofthe invention is to provide packaging devices of theabove character wihch also include angle members for the side edges atthe top of the stacked sheets and wherein means is provided forpreventing the angle member. of the supporting base from endwisemovement on the supporting. means therefor.

A further object of the invention is to provide ackaging devices of theabovecharae.

'25 ter w erein means is provided for preventing the baling meansslipping endwise of the stack. 1

In the drawings Fig. 1 is a perspective, view of a package of metalsheets formed by the use of my improved packaging devices. v

Fig. 2 is a plan-view of the supporting 'base ready for stacking thesheets thereon.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the I members of the supportingmeans and one of the angle members to be associated therewith. Fig. 4 isa perspective view of one of the upper'angle members.

Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view through the package as. shown inFig. 1'.

Fi 6 is a plan viewshowing a slightly .modi ed form of supporting base,one of the angle members being separated from the su porting meanstherefor,

n my copending application SenNo. 84,-

113 filed January 27, 1926, I have shown" and described packagin deviceswhich include a supporting means, aving legs permanetly attached-theretoon which the metal sheets maybe stacked. When the stack is completed,the sheets are bound to the support 1ng means by baling bands so thatthe legs become a part of the package and are transportable therewith,always holding the package raised from the floor to permit the arms of atransporting truck to pass beneath the package for lifting andtransporting the same.

The present invention relates to improvements in packaging devices ofthe character referred to and'consists in providing a sup-.

porting base on which the sheets are stacked .}wherein the supportingmeans carrying the legs are independent of the angle members for thebottom of the stack; thus while supporting the angle members; permittinthe sameto be adjusted for sheets of different widths and also allowingsaid members to be moved into close contact with the side edges of thesheets during. stacking. The invention also consists inproviding meansfor preventwith three legs 2, 2, 2; each leg is shown as tubular in formand rectangular in cross section. The legs may be made of any formdesired. These legs are permanently secured to the member 1 by riveting,Welding or in any other well known way. The parts of my packagingdevices are preferably all made of metal, so that the devices may bereturned for reuse. 4

Associated with'the supporting members 1 are angle members 3, one foreach supporting member when two supporting members are used. The anglemembers 3 are provided with spaced lugs 4:, 4, one pair for each leg onthe supportingmembersr The support ing members are placed. on the flooras shown in Figure 2 and then the angle member placed on the. supportingmembers with the lugs 4 alongside of the legs with which they areassociated. This forms the supporting base on which thesheets arestackedand the supports and the angle members are so positioned that theupright portions of the angle members engage the side edges of thesheets. Inasmuch as the members 3 are detachably connected to thesupporting'members carrying the legs, they can moved I toward each otherand into contact with the side face of the stack-after thesheetsat thebottom of the stack are placed, if found necessary. Angle upper sideedges of the stac after it is completed. These are placedso as toengage'the side face of the'stack and'thus protect the side edges of thetopmost sheets in the stack. a

and the sheets together for shipment. The

angle members 5 are providedwith lugs .8 which prevent endwise movementof the anle member or lateral movement of the baling ands. When flatbaling bands are used the ends thereof may be secured by any form ofbale tie 9. I

The lugs 4, 4 prevent the angle members from sliding endwise of thestack, and the legs 2 prevent the" baling bands from sliding laterallyat the bottom of the stack. It wilHJe understood that metal sheets ofdifferent -'widths, within certain limits, may be acked "and shipped bythe same ackaging evlces.

The legs are of sufiicient eight so that the, I

' arms of a transporting truck maybe passed transported.

beneath the stack and the stack lifted and The angle members 3, 3 notonly rotect the side edges of the lowermost sheets rom being bent orindented by the baling bands, but also transport truck when passing thearms of beneath the stack.

In Fi 6 of the drawings protect said edges from being bumped by the tere- I have show-nqa modifi formof supporting base wherein there is onlyone'supporting member 10 attache d to the legs 2, 2, 2 intermediate theends thereof. The angle members 3, 3 are the same members 5, 5'arerovided for the 1n the same manner in making up the supporting. base. aThe supporting base is used 2-in making up the package.

When the package reaches its destination the baling bands areremoved-and discarded,-

while the supporting means and angle members'are nested an returned forreuse in packaging sheets. M improved packagin devices are designed oruse in king an shi ping metal sheets such as tin eac package may-includesever'alibase boxes of tin plate: v

It will" be where it is desirable to protect the edges of the sheetsfrom being bent or indented by-the packaging ing means.

made in the details of construction wit out departing from thespirit of.the invention as I set forth in the appended claim.

I claim Rackaging devices J I for metal sheets comprecisely the same asthe supporting base shown in Fig.vv

lates, and

It is obvious-that minor chan s 'ma be construction as above noted andare I understood of course that the packaging devices may be used'forpacking sheets of any character where it is desired to bale the sheetsafter they are stacked and devices'and particularly thebalprising asupporting means having legs permanently-attac-hed thereto andtransportable I with the package, angle members independent of thesupporting means and forming therewith a supporting .baseon which the.metal sheets may be stacked with'said angle members disposed at thesides and with one 1 portionof the members extending, along the sideface of the stack and the other portion beneath the stack, spaced lugsformed on the said anglemembers adapted to'lie on oppo-- 7 site sides ofthe legs for preventing the angle;

members from moving" endwise' o and baling means adapted "to pass "aboutthe Ztae'ked sheetsforsecuring the sheets to the the base,

In testimony whereof, I a fiix my s gnature.

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